Reading: Knights & Castles

Jed loves going to the bookshop every week and choosing a book to read. This week's pick is on: Knights and Castles.

Jed's been telling me that if he lived in the old times, he would have to leave me and study to be a knight by age 7. And how lucky I am I have him to myself for many more years! 

Greenhouse Effect

Jed chose to do a greenhouse from his Science Activity book because he loves puttering around in the ground.

Here is his greenhouse which he made himself with an old cereal box, some old plastic and barbecue sticks.

In a few days, the onion leaves were shooting straight toward the sun. Jed poked holes in the plastic because he was worried that not enough air was coming in.

A Collage on Communities

Here is Jed's mindmap of his lesson on communities plus a collage  for each of the three rural communities. 

The farming community:

The fishing community: 

And the mining community:

I am... Perseverant

For no reason, violin lessons became tedious this week. This was also the week that we decided to learn the Lupang Hinirang which led Jed to tears and me to tug at my hair in frustration.

So, this was the perfect time for Jed to learn about Perseverance!

Here is Jed plowing through violin exercises while listening to the original piece on CD. 

Love to Share

Me: How do you show your love towards your mother?
Jed: By giving my mom a glass of water when she is sick and too tired to stand up. 

Sweet kid!

The Creation Book

 We got our book the Mystery of History last week. For Jed's first activity, he did the Creation Book. 

There is one day per page.

Day 1:

Day 2 & 3:
For Day 3, Jed likes to say: "God made the seas and he made vegetation." He's very proud of that grown up word 'vegetation'.

Day 4 & 5:

Look at the richness in the sea. My favourite is the bottleneck dolphin. There is also a squid, an octopus, a shark and a lobster.

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Day 6 & 7: 

Day 7 is my most favourite day of all. It simply says: "God rested". Underneath that, Jed drew a picture of a church, to show that we rest and go to church on the 7th day, too.

Violin practice at home

I'm not as good as Jed's teacher Adrian. But, I try to get him some much-needed practice, once in a while.

There's something so poetic about hearing Jed play his music while the trees sway in the breeze through the open door.